Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-06

feet this side of the bridge, but whether
this caused the accident or whether q
wheel first broke is doubtful. The loco
motive, Baggage and mail cars crossed the
bridge in safety. The two passenger
coaches and the Boston sleeping
car, Pilgrim, and the Springfield
sleeper, St. Albsps, went off the
bridge and were apparently turned
bottom up in the fall. Men living
near by stated that when they got to the
scene there was no fire except in the for
ward passenger car, but the flames soon
spread to the other cars and then to the
bridge. All were consumed. Twenty
six persons as far as known were taken
out alive from the cars which were
be Mr.. Wesson, the pistol manu-
facturer of Springfield, and Ed
Brockelbsnks, q brakeman, but
they died soon after. The two passen-
ger coaches were well filled. Every berth
in the Boston sleeping car was occupied
and twelve in the one from Springfield,
making the total number of passengers in
the wrecked cars about eighty. This will
probably make the number OF dead be-
tween fifty and sixty. The bridge was
between thirty and forty feet above the
water, which is covered with thick ice,
making it probable that death resulted
from crushing and burning rather than
from drowning. Several were pinned up
in the wreck who might have been res
cued but for the flames. Brakeman
Parker, who was on the forward end OF
one of the passenger cars, felt the Jar
and saved his life by leaping from the
falling train.
SOME OF THE KILLED.
Boston, Mass, Feb. "a dispatch
from Bradford, Vt, to the Associated
Press says: The night express which left
White River Junction bound for Montreal,
fl led with passengers from Boston and
New York for the carnival, was wrecked al
the first crossing of White river. A rail
broke and two passenger coaches and two
sleeping cars plunged over the bridge
sixty feet into the river. B fore the en-
gineer or airy one could get 10 the wreck
the cars caught fire and burned. TIE
bridge was also burned, and inside of
twenty minutes all were destroyed. 1t is
estimated thst fifty persons were killed.
HENRY TUXBURY of West Randolph,
VT, the well known lecturer, was among
the killed.
EDWARD +. DILLON of Springfield, Vt,
was also killed. He was MEMBER of the
Sophomore class at Dartmouth, and was
pitcher for the University nine.
A. B. VEAsIE, 4 classmate, was with
him, but escaped unirjured.
The train consisted of one sleeping car
and passenger coach from here, one Chica-
90 sleeping car connected at White River
Junction. one mail car from Boston,
another passenger coach and one baggage
and one express car.
FRANK L. WEssoN, who was killed,
was about thirty five years of age. He
leaves wife and four children. He mar
ri4d a daughter of John Lowell of Mon
treal, and was . brother-in-law of John
W. Lowell, the New York publisher. He
intended to leave for Montreal Yesterday
morning by the day express, but there be-
ing no parlor car attached to the train, he
deferred his departure until Sis last
night, taking the sleeping car through to
Montreal. He wes accompanied by his
sister-in-law, Miss Lowell, who was re-
turning to her home in Montreal. 1t is
understood that she was not seriously
injured.
The latest reports received here state